The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are teaming up on an iris-recognition project to identify border trespassers, Nextgov reports.

The DHS increasingly is testing iris recognition at border stations to identify suspected illegal immigrants, according to department officials. The FBI’s traditional fingerprinting system is transforming into a $1 billion multitrait repository called the Next Generation Identification program.

The biometric databases at DHS and the FBI are required by law to be compatible.

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